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EVANGELICAL CHURCH

EVANGELICAL CHURCH

author
unknown, builder Gustáv Dohnanyi, 1931

National
historic landmark

A little church stands modestly at
the end of the park. Its position between the sanatorium Machnáč and the small
hydro power station indicates a story in the background. Most likely, the
building grew in parallel with the neighbouring sanatorium. The classicist
composition of the little chapel and its tower lining the entrance axis is not
an avant-garde form. However, its pure white facade, narrow vertical windows,
and circular columns, which support an avant-corps with a strip window forming
the chapel´s narthex, explicitly refer to the contemporary functionalist
tendency. The chapel served to the evangelical community. The architect remains
unknown, some sources refer to a local builder Adamec as the author, but
the building´s form suggests the author might come from across the Moravia River.
Accompanying the dominant sanatorium Machnáč, the still functional little
church creates an extraordinary architectural composition of the small buildings
at the end of the park.